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pieced together by: MJD<\/i><\/p>\n

People seek to open to the gods in various, strange ways. After looking at some oracles in the ancient world, I pieced this one together from their examples. It seems to follow the same theory, except it uses quotes from Jimmy Buffett songs instead of the Illiad<\/i> or the Bible. All lyrics come from margaritaville.com<\/a>, and I’ve only altered them to try and fix some punctuation and a bit of spelling, or maybe to reflect what Jimmy is actually singing.<\/p>\n

The most interesting part of this exercise was realizing how much the internalization of the text in question affects the reading. My internalization of the Jimmy Buffett lyrics adds amazing<\/i> layers of interpretation to this that I would have never expected. I’ll talk about that in a separate article.<\/p>\n

The source oracles are also available, drawn from the Homeric Oracle<\/a> in the Greek Magical Papyri<\/i> and a collection of Christian oracles<\/a> from several centuries later.<\/p>\n

The verse will be picked randomly each time you refresh this screen. This one might match up better with specific questioning (“Should I dump my boyfriend?” types of questions) than the Homeric or Christian oracles did, but I think it should still be used to guide your day, rather than answer specific problems.<\/p>\n

Today’s verse, specific to you, is:<\/p>\n

93. There’s a lot I want to pass along that was handed down to me.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So says the Jimmy Buffett Oracle. May it help you!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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